Chapter 1: (02:01) Introduction Music
Mark starts another great lesson with some slack key guitar. Get tuned up and ready to revist the song "Salomila."

Chapter 2: (08:35) Return to "Salomila"
In this lesson, you will learn a few additions that can be made to the tune "Salomila." Mark adds a number of double stops and slides to the original version that he taught you. These techniques make the overall arrangement sound much more interesting. The new arrangement is still played in Taropatch tuning. Take this time to ensure that your guitar is in tune with Mark's. You will have an opportunity to play along with him later in the lesson.

Mark begins this scene by playing the original arrangement of "Solimila." A transcription of this arrangement can be found under the Supplemental Content tab.

Mark then plays the new version that you will learn in this lesson. Take a moment to compare/contrast the two arrangements. The melody and bass line are still exactly the same. However, many new additions are made. For example, Mark adds the turnarounds that he discussed in several previous lessons. Also, double stops are added to the arrangement to make the harmony sound more full.

Note: Open "New 'Salomila'" under the Supplemental Content tab.

This arrangement begins with a very large position shift slide. You may want to isolate and practice this slide to ensure that you are not under or overshooting it. Although each double stop is broken up by an eighth note, you may want to slide up the neck with the double stop pattern already fretted. This eliminates unnecessary movement in the left hand. Watch as Mark demonstrates this concept at 4:20.

Pause the video now to practice this new arrangement of "Salomila." Mark gives you an opportunity to play it along with him at 7:20.

Chapter 3: (03:53) Playing Both Versions
In a slack key performance, the form of the song is typically repeated several times. Mark plays through the form of "Salomila" several times in this scene. Notice how he intermingles both arrangements into a brand new arrangement. For example, he may decide to play the third and fourth measures of the first arrangement during one repetition of the form. The next time around, he might play the third and fourth measures from the new arrangement taught in this lesson. Mixing the two versions together adds much needed variety to a performance of "Salomila."

Mark Nelson concludes his series wrap-up with a lesson on "My Yellow Ginger Lei" in Taropatch tuning. He also shares tips and advice to continue on your own until he returns to JamPlay with more lessons.

Mark Nelson wraps up his open Bb tuning miniseries with a look at a song you might recognize from previous lessons, "‘Ulupalakua".

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About Mark Kailana NelsonView Full Biography
Ki Ho `alu, or slack key guitar, is a uniquely Hawaiian music. Legend has it that Spanish cowboys hired to teach cattle handling in the 1830's brought the first guitars the Polynesians had seen. Until very recently, slack key
was almost unknown outside of the Islands.

Mark's lifelong interest in slack key led him to write "Learn to Play Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar" (Mel Bay Publications), with legendary Hawaiian musician Keola Beamer â€“ the first widely available instruction method for this
gentle art. Keola and Mark co-host the Aloha Music Camp â€“ an immersion into the music and culture of Hawaii held each summer in the Hawaiian Islands.

Mark's 2004 CD, "The Water is Wide," brings together the nahenahe sounds of slack key guitar with the sweet sounds of the dulcimer. In 2006 he released "Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar," nineteen classic Hawaiian songs recorded live in the studio. A book of note-for-note transcriptions in Tab and standard notation facilitates learning the songs.. His most recent book and CD set, "Ke Kukima Polinahe," is the first-ever recording of
traditional slack key music arranged for the dulcimer.

Mark began playing guitar and bass professionally at the not-so-tender age of 12. Over the years he's added a number of instruments, including mandolin, `ukulele, bodhran and the Appalachian dulcimer and its European kin.

In the early 1970's Mark was one of a handful of free-spirited musicians who created a whole new vocabulary for the Appalachian dulcimer and guitar. He created a driving flatpicking dulcimer style, playing the instrument
with a force and passion seldom heard before. A first place win at the National Mountain Dulcimer Championships in Winfield, Kansas in 1979 led to appearances at festivals, colleges and coffeehouses across North America
and Europe, and a recording career spanning over 25 years.

He's an engaging performer, artfully weaving stories and humor with heartfelt music to transport the audience. Mark has performed just about everywhere from Barrow to Boston; Sligo to San Diego. He's shared the stage with
performers as diverse as Grover Washington, Jr.; Norton Buffalo; Phoebe Snow, Doc Watson, George Winston and many others. He once worked as a banjo playing gorilla in Dublin, but that's another story...

"Nelson is a musician who possesses that rare combination of insight and talent necessary to successfully transcend conventional concepts of genre and culture."John Berger, Honolulu Star-Bulletin

"Every once in a while a musician comes along who can make an instrument speak in tongues"Deseret News, Salt Lake City

"Mark Nelson seems to be on to something new and sweet with his marriage of Appalachian dulcimer and Hawaiian slack key guitar. Drizzle is one of the most achingly beautiful slack key numbers heard in years."Danny Carnahan, Acoustic Guitar Magazine

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